Program Curriculum

Physician Assistant Program

Physician Assistant Program Program Curriculum The following curriculum is subject to change. Technology is used extensively to improve instruction, to develop faculty, student, and staff technological self-efficacy, to manage evaluation data, and to facilitate the administration of the program.

First Year  

Fall

  • 530A The Physician Assistant Role in Modern Health Care 1
  • 585 Physiology 4
  • 580 Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 3
  • 590P Gross Anatomy with Lab 6
  • 605C Physical Diagnosis I 3
  • 621A Clinical Pharmacology I 1

Spring  

  • 510 Human Genetics 1
  • 535 Human Behavior and Psychiatry 3
  • 602 Medical Pathophysiology I 7
  • 605D Physical Diagnosis II 3
  • 621B Clinical Pharmacology II 2
  • 649P General Radiology 3
  • 701 Women's Health/Pediatrics/Geriatrics 3

Summer  

  • 552 Medical Spanish 3
  • 573 Research in Community Health 4
  • 603 Medical Pathophysiology II 4
  • 640P Surgical Principles 2
  • 705B Emergency Medicine 2
  • 605E Physical Diagnosis III 2
  • 621C Clinical Pharmacology III 2

There will be eight six-week rotations. Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, Prenatal Care and Women's Health, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Surgery, and an Elective rotation. Following each rotation there will be End of Rotation Exercises.

Fall, Spring & Summer*

  • 727 Clinical Orientation (PA) 1
  • 740 PA Rotation 1 6
  • 741 PA Rotation 2 6
  • 742 PA Rotation 3 6
  • 743 PA Rotation 4 6
  • 744 PA Rotation 5 6
  • 745 PA Rotation 6 6
  • 746 PA Rotation 7 6
  • 747 PA Rotation 8 6

Third Year  

Fall

  • 553P Biomedical Ethics/Health Care Delivery 2
  • 530B Transition to PA Clinical Practice 1
  • 806P Library Research Paper 7
  • 638 Thanatology 1
  • 690 Clinical Therapeutics 2
  • 695 Primary Care Review Course 3

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